Kimbe Bay's Movable Feast

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Kimbe Bay's Movable Feast

Photograph by David Doubilet, National Geographic

Animals that look like plants, feather star crinoids sweep plankton from the waters of Kimbe Bay on the coast of New Britain, Papua New Guinea. With 900 species of reef fish, the bay literally pulses with life—a movable feast for predators like these barracuda.

See more pictures from the November 2013 feature story "Paradise Revisted.”

The garden under the bay! Exquisite, colorful, and unbelieveable! The shoal of barracuda in the background in their hundreds, look really impressive, but thats what some fish do Enjoyed the picture a lot. j.e.s..

Interesting how all of the fish are traveling away from the photographer accept the two in the upper right corner. I wonder why? Is there something outside of the frame we don't see? Very interesting. Beautiful picture nonetheless! Well done!

The intensity of the colours in these marine creatures is incredible! The vibrancy of the colours in the foreground is enhanced by their contrast with the muted blue background. The radial formation of the fish in the background echoes the shape of the radiating white and orange arms of that feather star crinoid.